KAILUA-KONA — For the past three years, the Pua Na Pua Art Festival has created a space in town to showcase disabled Hawaii Island artists and their work, a privilege not all of them have been able to experience in the past.

KAILUA-KONA — When Jean Hull created Christmas with the Chefs in 1989, the then associate professor of culinary arts at University of Hawaii Center-West Hawaii was looking for a way to give her students the money they needed for an education.